Monday, September 29, 2014

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News and articles from around the web

A backend for the educational 'y86' instruction set architecture has been
started. The
source is on Github.

A new binary snopshot of the ELLCC cross compilation toolchain is now
available.
Pre-compiled binaries are available for ARM, MIPS, PPC, and x86. All tarballs
contain header files and runtime libraries for all targets to allow you to
build for any supported target.

Wondering how to use noalias and alias.scope metadata notations? Hal Finkel
has the
answer for
you.

Should the LLVM project standardise on a commit message
policy?
Renato Golin suggests trying to keep the first line short followed by some
number of 80 character paragraphs. It seems there's massive agreement on this
sort of guidance.